Reader recommendation: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
By
Paul Sedan, San Francisco
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman鈥檚 analysis of TV鈥檚 effect on our culture, is as relevant now as when first published in 1985. And given today鈥檚 love affair with computers, smart phones, tablets, video games, and texting, it still resonates with warning as to how we can be mentally manipulated.听听
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